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Baez, Javier E. - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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Climate Change Salience, Economic Insecurity, and Support for Mitigation Policies

Johnston, David; Knott, Rachel; Mendolia, Silvia - 2022

Many people remain opposed to climate change mitigation policies. This opposition is an obstacle to policy action and, therefore, important to understand. We explore how unusually high temperatures (heat waves), which observably increase the salience of climate change-related issues, affect...

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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution : Implications of Climate Change

Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2014

This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths,...

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Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains

Gibson, Matthew - 2020

Applying a difference-in-differences framework to a census of residential property transactions in New York City 2003-2017, we estimate the price effects of three flood risk signals: 1) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which increased premiums; 2) Hurricane Sandy; and 3) new...

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Do Europeans Care About Climate Change? An Illustration of the Importance of Data on Human Feelings

Nowakowski, Adam - 2020

Economists have proposed a variety of sophisticated climate-change interventions. But do our citizens care enough about climate change to enact such policies? This paper provides evidence that suggests they do not. Two kinds of findings are presented. Using data on 40,000 Europeans from the 2016...

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Climate Adaptation Policies and Infant Health : Evidence from a Water Policy in Brazil

Mata, Daniel da; Emanuel, Lucas; Pereira, Vitor Azevedo; … - 2022

This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The …, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications …

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States : Benefits and Costs of Adaptation

Deschênes, Olivier - 2022

adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on … and consumption related to high temperatures, a commonly-used proxy for measuring the consumption of adaptation services … magnitude larger than the private cost of adaptation associated with electricity consumption …

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Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh - 2022

Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...

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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022

We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...

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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration : An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries

Drabo, Alassane - 2013

The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by interesting in the migration rates and the education level in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

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